THE BILLIONAIRE’S HIDDEN HEARTAuthor: Esty’sCHAPTER 45 — THE BEGINNING OF THE ENDPART 9The sky was no longer a sky.It had become a wound.A massive black opening stretched across the heavens of Evera, swallowing the stars one after another. The two suns were gone, replaced by a darkness so deep that even Seraphina seemed unable to look directly at it.Hope stood frozen.Nova was in her arms.The little girl who had once been the First Silence clung tightly to Hope’s leg.Adrian stood beside them, his face hard with determination.Lyra, Kael, Kieran, Noah, Aveline, and Seraphina had formed a line behind Hope.But nobody moved.Nobody spoke.Because above them—something was waking.Three enormous eyes opened inside the darkness.Then a fourth.Then a fifth.Hope stared upward.“That’s not the First Hunger.”Her grandfather laughed.“No.”Hope’s voice became quiet.“What is it?”Her grandfather looked at the creature with something close to worship.“The thing that created Hunger.”
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